Windows vs Linux TAR files

[haroldo]

Linux vs Windows speed

I think that, in terms of speed, there's a difference between Windows and Linux. Linux seems to be faster. I found this information on weloveourhost.com/linux-windows.html Maybe you could read that page to get a better understanding of the differences between the 2 platforms. Good luck!

[brosis]

File a bug report xD

[droste]

AFAIK this is due to ext4 vs NTFS. NTFS plain simply sucks on Windows. I haven't tried it myself, but I hear that this is the reason Minecraft has much faster loading times on Linux (many small files).

I can confirm this. I tried to copy a few large files and a huge amount of small files to a NTFS usb-drive last week and the performance was horrible (sometimes it felt like it wasn't even copying new files). It was so horrible that I formatted the drive to exfat and now it works quite good (windows and linux) with the same amount of large files.

[timothyja]

AFAIK this is due to ext4 vs NTFS. NTFS plain simply sucks on Windows. I haven't tried it myself, but I hear that this is the reason Minecraft has much faster loading times on Linux (many small files).

I was thinking that could be it but I just cant believe that NTFS is really that slow. I forgot to add that the Windows machine I tried it on has both a raid setup and a SSD and neither made a difference. While my Ubuntu machine just has a plain old hard drive.

Oh well I guess its another reason to tell my boss why we should be using linux.

Edit: I also tried using a RAM Drive application that made a virtual Fat32 disk drive in RAM and it was still very slow almost unchanged from the real disk drives.

[d2kx]

AFAIK this is due to ext4 vs NTFS. NTFS plain simply sucks on Windows. I haven't tried it myself, but I hear that this is the reason Minecraft has much faster loading times on Linux (many small files).

[timothyja]

I'm not sure if Phoronix is the best place to ask this but here goes.

Can anyone explain to me why a 4MB tar file with around 2000 small files in it takes up to 12 seconds to extract in windows 7 64-bit (I have tried 7zip and the windows GNU Tar port ) on a Xeon 3Ghz 6 core, 12GB memory machine

And yet is almost instant on a Ubuntu Linux 64-bit machine with a Dual core AMD 3Ghz, 8GB ram.

Surely windows can't really be that bad at creating new files on the file system can it?